Re: RE: Orocos Release 0.14.0

On Tuesday 11 May 2004 12:03, Andrea Consonni wrote:
> Hi,
>    we have some problems with Orocos 0.14.0. We are working with RTAI
> 24.1.12 and Linux 2.4.22.
> We have three compile errors with file MainThread.cxx:
>
> 1) At row 7 g++ say "no such file" about file 'fosi.h'. We think that it
> should be '#include "os/fosi.h"';

Thanks, I wonder why this worked at our place...

>
> 2) At row 17 the function 'query_module(...)' is unknown and at row 20 the
> function 'exit()' needs a parameter. Watching the old MainThread.cxx file
> (version 0.12.0) and  seeing that it's only a control about  rtai_lxrt
> module loading, we have commented on the file from row 15 to row 21.

I start to believe that a wrong version of this file was released :-)

>
> 3) At row 47 'rt_task' attribute type should be 'RT_TASK*' and not 'void*'.
> We have changed that in MainThread.hpp file.

isn't RT_TASK* a typedef of void*

>
> Besides, we had some problems with Comedi: we had Comedi 0.7.67 and didn't
> compile the 'ComediEncoder.cxx'. This file requests Comedi 0.7.68 and we
> think that you should say this.

We should. Comedi is a bit of a moving target. One of my collegues upgraded 
comedi and therefore, I guess the release followed.

I'll add your corrections in the next 0.14.x release.

with kind regards,
Peter

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